Flame
לֶהָבָהStrong’s H3852lehavah (le-ha-vah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lehavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “flame”, “blade of” and “flames of”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.”
Meaning
- Flame
- Tip of weapon, point, head of spear
How it's translated
- flame 5
- a flame 5
- and a flame 2
- and blade of 1
- flames of 1
- and like a flame 1
- flames 1
- and flame 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 5
- Psalms 4
- Joel 2
- Numbers 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:28For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
- 1 Samuel 17:7And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before him.
- Psalms 29:7The voice of the LORD divideth the flames of fire.
- Psalms 83:14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
- Psalms 105:32He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
- Psalms 106:18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Hebrew dictionary
לֶהָבָה lehavah · flame
1) flame 2) tip of weapon, point, head of spear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLAME, noun
[Latin flamma.]
- A blaze; burning vapor; vapor in combustion; or according to modern chimistry, hydrogen or any inflammable gas, in a state of combustion, and naturally ascending in a stream from burning bodies being specifically lighter than common air.
- Fire in general.
- Heat of passion; tumult; combustion; blaze; violent contention.
- Ardor of temper or imagination; brightness of fancy; vigor of thought.
All definitions and other forms of “flame”
- Ardor of inclination; warmth of affection.
- The passion of love; ardent love.
- Rage; violence; as the flames of war.
FLAME, verb transitive
To inflame; to excite.
FLAME, verb intransitive
- To blaze; to burn in vapor, or in a current; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion.
- To shine like burning gas.
- To break out in violence of passion.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.